Saturday, March 16, 2013

Pi Day: Caltech students celebrate with late-night pie party | 3M ...


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By Sean Greene A pi pie. (Paul Smith/Flickr) The biggest math- and pastry-themed party in San Francisco is Pi Day at the Exploratorium. They'll have.


It's 3/14, otherwise known as Pi day. Here, see a talk from a guy who has painted the emotions in the digits of Pi.


The Santa Clara University researcher announced today – on Pi Day, which corresponds with 3/14 on the calendar – that he's just broken the record for calculating pi, taking the classic ratio to eight-quadrillion places right of


Yesterday's self-congratulatory pat on the back to anyone reciting Pi to ten digits might feel a bit inadequate compared to Santa Clara University's Ed.


Now that much-decorated director Ang Lee has scooped up another handful of awards for Life of Pi, he's turning his attention to television. Lee will follow up Life of Pi with an FX pilot called Tyrant, his TV directorial debut.






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